Engineering Director

Contentsquare is the all-in-one experience intelligence platform designed to be easily used by anyone who cares about digital journeys. With our flexible and scalable platform, organizations quickly get a deep understanding of their customers’ whole online journey.

We are a global leader in the experience analytics space, with a growing presence across 15 offices worldwide. We’re here to stay—and we’re looking for team members who are excited to drive impact and help us scale even further.

Our aim is to create an inclusive workplace where everyone learns and succeeds. Contentsquare has built a community of individuals who are daring, understanding, and deliberate. We invite you to join us in making the complex simpler—for our customers, their customers, and each other.
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We are looking for an **Engineering Director**, Data & Integrations, to lead **three pivotal engineering teams** (20+ Data, Backend, and Frontend engineers), across various offices and countries, working collaboratively to build the backbone of our data ecosystem. Reporting directly to the VP of Data, you'll drive the strategy and execution for all third-party integrations, ensure our valuable data is available in various lakehouses, and uphold robust data lifecycle, compliance, and privacy standards.

As our **Director of Engineering,** you’ll play a pivotal leadership role, working closely with Product and guiding distributed teams across Europe and Australia to scale our customer-facing data ecosystem.

This position can be remote from France or hybrid in Paris or Barcelona offices.

**What you will do**:

- ** Vision & Roadmap**

Develop and drive a robust technical vision for the future of our stack, aligned with the company's business goals (OKRs) and product vision.

Define long-term strategy - including knowledge, development, and partnership plans for our key technologies

Support and enable tech watch and new technology explorations. Question the status quo, sponsor team initiatives, and promote them.

Understand and challenge critical technical choices and directions (scalability, cost, evolvability ).
- ** Management & Organization**

Enhance the organization and address organizational gaps in the context of reorganization. Anticipate future needs and challenges. Review and optimize team processes.

Support your managers in building, prioritizing, and smoothly delivering their roadmaps based on the technical vision and OKRs. Ensure a balance between short-term needs and long-term plans, and accurately prioritize across teams.

Align resource needs and staffing plans across and outside your organization.
- ** Production & Operations**

Ensure production continuity of the data pipelines and database components under your responsibility.

Efficiently manage, track, and optimize operational costs for your organization.
- ** Communication**

Communicate frequently with top management about team goals, achievements, and roadmap updates.

Foster strong relationships within the entire organization. Connect with Product & Business teams to anticipate future needs.

Regularly communicate within and outside Contentsquare about our vision, main technical challenges, and successes.

**What You’ll Need to Succeed**:

- 10+ years of experience managing software and data, backend and frontend engineering teams.
- Experience managing teams of 20+ people, including middle management.
- A proven track record of successfully leading large, complex, and impactful projects
- Strong program management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including with C-level executives.
- Broad technical knowledge, a passion for technology, and familiarity with cutting-edge technologies.

**Why you should join Contentsquare**

We invest in our people through career development, mentorship, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits. We are always assessing the perks we offer to ensure we’re aligned with the employees' needs.

Here are a few we want to highlight:

- Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year
- Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies
- Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
- Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave
- Wellbeing and Home Office allowances
- A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work
- Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success
- We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and p